WickedJenn
11-13-2008, 03:23 PM
I've been seeing previews for this and it looks really good.
The basic plot is WWII-era: A German boy befriends a Jewish boy who is in a concentration camp.
Some things I can't help mentioning since, well, I went to school for history--
One of the shots in the preview is the Jewish boy sitting by the barbed wire fence in the camp (which one it is, I'm not sure). That is a bit inaccurate because, no way would he be able to sit down on the ground like that and have a conversation with someone on the outside for any length of time at all, they were VERY strict about that from what I've read. I realize they had to do that for the movie, but, this should be known.
Also, the premise of the film brings up something else. During WWII in Europe, the concentration camps were often set up right between towns. Dachau is one example. It's incredulous to me how some of the townspeople would claim they had no idea what was transpiring inside those fences. In "Band of Brothers" for example, after they find the Landsberg camp, they make the citizens in that town bury some of the victims.
The basic plot is WWII-era: A German boy befriends a Jewish boy who is in a concentration camp.
Some things I can't help mentioning since, well, I went to school for history--
One of the shots in the preview is the Jewish boy sitting by the barbed wire fence in the camp (which one it is, I'm not sure). That is a bit inaccurate because, no way would he be able to sit down on the ground like that and have a conversation with someone on the outside for any length of time at all, they were VERY strict about that from what I've read. I realize they had to do that for the movie, but, this should be known.
Also, the premise of the film brings up something else. During WWII in Europe, the concentration camps were often set up right between towns. Dachau is one example. It's incredulous to me how some of the townspeople would claim they had no idea what was transpiring inside those fences. In "Band of Brothers" for example, after they find the Landsberg camp, they make the citizens in that town bury some of the victims.